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Report Hate Against Military Veterans
People can have legitimate stand against the use of military by nation states. However, such a stand should not lead to the promotion of hate of and discrimination against our military personnel and veterans. Unfortunately, the Facebook community page Gaia’s Dancing Indigo Children (Facebook ID: 828716663905465) is failing to make that distinction. The page belongs to an American new-age spiritual group.…
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Report “Diggers are Dole Bludgers” Phoenix page
In April this year, OHPI succeeded in getting a page spreading hate against Australian military veterans “Diggers are Dole Bludgers” (ID# 1583334281945743) removed. Another page was created (ID# 1396071514053238) with the same name soon after. We refer to such pages as Pheonix pages. They reappear with the same name as the previous page and with…
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Report Hate Against the Disabled on Twitter
Recently, we have seen a rise in the number of reports on hate against people with disabilities to our online hate reporting tool FightAgainstHate.com. This is a disturbing trend. Disabled people, many of whom suffer from cognitive disabilities, are among the most vulnerable people in our society, and least capable of defending themselves against online…
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Attacking the ANZACs in the lead up to Centenary
UPDATE: Success! Facebook removed this page on May 15, 2015. This briefing looks at the “Diggers are Dole Bludgers” page (ID 1008573589154801) on Facebook and provides some examples of posts and imagery present on this page. The page was created on April 17th and currently has 416 likes. The page has received National coverage by…
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Attacks on Pro-ANZAC Day Page
Updated 18/9/2013 in response to a reply from the Army and action against OHPI by members of a Facebook group discussed in this briefing OHPI is disappointed to see that Facebook is reviewing the “KEEP ANZAC DAY IN ITS CURRENT FORM” page in response to an organised campaign directed against that page and involving serious…
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Attacking the ANZACs
Since the week of April 9th 2012, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has been monitoring a number of Facebook pages created to spread hateful content about ANZAC veterans. OHPI have discussed the situation with the RSL and police and have notified the Department for Veteran’s Affairs. These cowardly attacks will be ignored by most…